BEIJING, July 11 (AFP): Two billion rats that have fled their flooded homes are on the march in central China, destroying farmland and posing a health risk to humans, state press reported Wednesday. The rats have spread out across 20...
SYDNEY, July 11 (AFP): Australian farmers should rear kangaroos rather than sheep because they do less damage to the country's environment, according to a prominent ecologist. University of Sydney ecologist Chris Dickman believes much Australian farmland used for sheep or...
Two killed as Thai PM visits troubled south NARATHIWAT, (Thailand), July 11: Suspected separatists have shot dead two people including a government official in Thailand's restive south, police said Wednesday, as the Thai premier began a two-day visit to the...
WASHINGTON, July 11 (AFP): As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) set in motion its search for a new chief, analysts said the multilateral organisation is struggling for credibility and needs a fresh perspective. On Tuesday, the European Union appeared to...
WASHINGTON, July 11 (AFP): A World Bank report released yesterday cited some progress in the global fight against corruption but warned that overall, problems with stability and poor governance remain entrenched in many regions. "We do not find that indicators,...
BEIJING, July 11 (AFP): China will work harder to cut the nation's fast-expanding trade surplus, the commerce ministry said today, a day after data showed the balance hit an all-time high in June. "We will continue to take measures to...
BANGALORE, July 11 (AFP): Indian software giant Infosys beat expectations with a 35-per cent jump in first-quarter profit today but cut its year forecast as a surging rupee hit the value of dollar-billed exports. Net income in the quarter ended...
SANTIAGO, July 11 (Xinhua): Chile has been best governed among Latin American countries since 1996, said a World Bank report quoted by local media yesterday. The 2007 report "The Governance Matters," which examined the ten year period from 1996 to...
MOSCOW, July 11 (PTI): India and Russia will set up a joint task force (JTF) to boost bilateral trade to a level of USD 10 billion by 2010 from the present USD 2 billion, a senior official of the Indian...
BRUSSELS, July 11 (AFP): French President Nicolas Sarkozy came under EU pressure yesterday to keep reining in the French deficit after he warned more time might be needed to balance the books while Paris pushed through economic reforms. EU Economic...
BEIJING, July 11 (CEIS): China yesterday expressed indignation and resolute opposition to advertisements run by the San Francisco bureau of the FBI in local Chinese language newspapers. The advertisements purportedly asked readers to report on any foreign power trying to...
OTTAWA, July 11 (AFP): The Bank of Canada (BoC) yesterday hiked its key lending rate by 0.25 percentage points to 4.50 per cent, hoping to quell mounting inflationary pressures with its first rate increase in a year. And another rate...
BEIJING, July 11 (CEIS): China's quality supervision authorities have blacklisted 14 companies for planning to export substandard food products and banned them from further exports. The companies were exposed by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (GAQSIQ)...
KATHMANDU, July 11 (Xinhua): The Nepali government is formulating a new law on standards in order to check the entry of substandard food and other consumable manufactured items into the country. According to a report in The Kathmandu Post today,...
TOKYO, July 11 (AFP): The dollar briefly hit another record low against the euro and was close to a 26-year nadir against sterling in Asian trade today amid concerns over the US housing market, dealers said. Jitters about the impact...
TAIPEI, July 11 (AFP): Taiwan's Ministry of Finance said today it would extend a 43.46 per cent anti-dumping tariff on shoes and boots imported from China until March 15, 2012. The government had levied an interim tariff since March after...
NEW DELHI, Jul 11 (PTI): India yesterday said it will pay more for quality wheat but not expose the country to weed invasion, after the US-miffed at being denied a chance to supply its grain - sought independent tests of...
SINGAPORE, July 11 (AFP): Oil prices fell in Asian trade today as the market took a breather after climbing to new 11- month highs, dealers said. New York's main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in August, was...
JAKARTA, July 11 (AFP): Indonesia and Vietnam, two of the world's top pepper producers, are to cooperate in the marketing of the black spice, an Indonesian industry executive said today. Producers in the two nations plan to establish a joint...
The country's population must be kept under control to avert social disasters.Projecting the adverse impacts of overpopulation, Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed made the call while inaugurating a programme jointly organised by the Department of Family Planning and UNFPA at the...
KHULNA, July 11 (UNB): Averse to politics of late, Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Mayor and BNP leader Sheikh Toyebur Rahman Wednesday told journalists not to ask him any political question, and spat his ire at the past political governments. "I...
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Noor Mohammad called on Chief Justice Md Ruhul Amin Wednesday. Supreme Court (SC) registrar Iktedar Ahmed told the bdnews24.com that the meeting was a courtesy call. Additional IGP (Administration) Naba Bikram Kishore Tripura and the...
The charge hearing of a tax evasion case against detained former State Minister for Power Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku and his family members was held back for four days Wednesday as the Anti-corruption Commi-ssion's (ACC's) prosecutor moved a petition, seeking...
Adviser for Foreign Affairs Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury made a courtesy call on President Iajuddin Ahmed at Bangabhaban Wednesday, reports UNB.During the meeting, the foreign adviser apprised the President of various issues relating to his ministry. President's upcoming visit to Singapore...
Saima Wazed Putul, the only daughter of Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina, gave birth to a baby boy in Miami, United States (US) Tuesday, prompting the grandmother to treat her party colleagues to sweets Wednesday morning. The infant has...
DU CorrespondentThe 'World Population Day 2007' was observed in the country Wednesday as elsewhere around the world with a clarion call for men to become partners for positive change at their respective stages.The theme of the day this year is...
BARISAL, July 11 (UNB): Ninety seven per cent of about four lakh dwellers of Barisal City Corporation (BCC) have no birth registration certificate.Birth registration annou-nced as mandatory for every citizen in December 2004 and an act in this connection came...
FE ReportDhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) and KATALYST, a multy-donor funding initiative implemented by Swiss contact and GTZ-IS signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote development of media for enterprise growth in Bangladesh.DRU President Alamgir Hossain and Katalyst Deputy General...
FE ReportThe merit scholarship awarding ceremony of East West University (EWU) for Summer Semester-2007 was held at its auditorium in the city recently. About 58 students received merit scholarships and 21 students were awarded scholarships from 'Medha Lalon Fund.'Bangladesh Public...
KURIGRAM, July 11 (UNB): Joint Forces arrested office assistant Ruhul Amin of Rajarhat Upazila Edu-cation Office while taking bribe Wednesday.Joint Forces caught Ruhul Amin red handed while he was taking Tk 10,000 as bribe from assistant teacher of Putikata Government...
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